They are simply looking to steer AI policy discussions. It's basically an in-house think tank. It has all the trappings, especially with ominous prognostications like:

  Today’s AI systems have impressive capabilities and the rapid pace of innovation suggests we’re now approaching artificial general intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain.

Not sure we are anywhere close to all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain... not even a severely lobotomized one.

▲ Eueudhsbsj32 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Not sure we are anywhere close to all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain...

In which capabilities are AI not already close to or beyond that of a human brain?

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idiotsecant 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The ability to solve general problems previously insoluble using only experiential data and modification to internal world models.

	▲	aesthesia 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		So, like ARC-AGI-3? I'm sympathetic to the notion that the things we're able to measure are necessarily going to miss important aspects of capability and intelligence. But people are attempting to measure this kind of thing, and models keep getting better at it.

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jkuli 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

politics

▲ pixl97 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Exactly how many cognitive capabilities are needed before it becomes a problem?

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verdverm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Just one, the ability to use language, it's causing all sorts of problems for us because we evolved to recognize other humans as the only ones having this capability.

Ai separated humans from language, like the writing did for memory and the printing press for knowledge distribution.

"AI does to us what American Cheese did to food" by Opus 23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CbmC2aWhjY

(still the best Ai video I have seen, also a work of art)

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ozgrakkurt an hour ago | parent [-]

> like the writing did for memory and the printing press for knowledge distribution

This blob of text seems to mean nothing

	▲	pixl97 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm not actually sure how you could come to that conclusion. Maybe you need to learn more about the language uplift.
	▲	verdverm an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What happened to the knowledge in the elder's mind when they died, prior to writing? What changed about that once we had writing?

▲ bossyTeacher an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> They are simply looking to steer AI policy discussions. It's basically an in-house think tank.

For a guy who spent his life imagining and realising dreams in video games and cognitive abilities in artificial neural networks, it has to be very soul destroying for Demis to spend his time doing something as frivolous as this.